Police charge suspect in carjacking, chase

January 01, 2006

MATTESON — A man was charged Friday in a carjacking in Matteson followed by a police chase that ended in Chicago, police said.

Charles Lee, 35, was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated fleeing and eluding and resisting arrest, according to a Matteson police statement.

The incident began late Thursday when a woman putting groceries in her car was approached by Lee who at gunpoint ordered her to give him the keys and that her sister and four children get out of the vehicle, police said. He drove off and was chased by an Illinois state trooper on Interstate Highway 57, police said. Lee exited and crashed into parked cars near 79th Street and King Drive in Chicago, police said.

Lee was arrested and turned over to Matteson police after being treated for minor injuries at St. Bernard Hospital, officials said.